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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro receives the key to the city in Toronto on July 24, 2025. <\/p>\nMexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro honoured with key to the city in Toronto. <\/p>\n
Academy-award winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has been given the key to the City of Toronto, a place he describes as his \u201csecond home\u201d and where he\u2019s filmed a number of movies over his nearly 40-year career.<\/p>\n
At a ceremony Thursday morning, the Mexican director spoke about the first time he came to the city 30 years ago, in part, to meet Toronto film legend David Cronenberg but to also shoot the first\u2013and what he called the most \u201cdifficult\u201d-movie of his career, \u201cMimic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, one would wonder, \u2018Well, he should\u2019ve run away,\u2019\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cBut the crew was amazing. Everybody was amazing. We got really drunk on Fridays on the camera truck and I liked that!\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Olivia Chow presented del Toro with the key at Cinespace Studios in Toronto, where he shot the Academy-award winning \u201cThe Shape of Water,\u201d as well as \u201cNightmare Alley\u201d and \u201cCabinet of Curiosities.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cGuillermo del Toro is a once-in-a-generation storyteller, director and filmmaker…Today, we celebrate his contributions to Toronto and his films which have touched viewers from around the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
As part of Thursday\u2019s ceremony, Cinespace announced that a section of its film production space will now be known as the \u201cGuillermo del Toro Stages.\u201d <\/p>\n
Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro receives the key to the city in Toronto on July 24, 2025. <\/p>\n
His upcoming film \u201cFrankenstein\u201d was also shot in Toronto and will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.<\/p>\n
Del Toro hasn\u2019t been shy about his love of Toronto. In recent years, he\u2019s shouted out some of his favourite bookstores<\/a> in the city and even called on the mayor to jump in to save a west-end cinema<\/a> that was at risk of closing.<\/p>\n \u201cFor all of this, I want to say thank you. I have loved Toronto for so many years, and I am very happy that it loves me a little back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro honoured with key to the city in Toronto. Academy-award winning filmmaker Guillermo del…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-20904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}